What Is Going to Happen to the Running Back Position?

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In the final episode of their offseason series, Ben and Steven look at the current state of the running back position, and the frustrations voiced by the likes of Austin Ekeler and Josh Jacobs over the lack of fair compensation. They look at why teams have stopped handing out long-term contracts to RBs (03:39), and why Derrick Henry and Christian McCaffrey are outliers (17:43). Then, they highlight the short career length for the position and the potential solutions that may be necessary to alleviate the issue (31:00). Hosts: Ben Solak and Steven Ruiz Producer: Eduardo Ocampo Additional Production Supervision: Arjuna Ramgopal and Conor Nevins Musical Elements: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right now on the Ringer gambling feet and all throughout the entire month of August, the East Coast
0:06.8	bias boys are getting you ready to bet to NFL this season. We're going through each and every
0:12.5	single division and revealing our favorite futures predicting division winners and even giving you
0:17.7	some award winners. Do we think the Kansas City Chiefs will repeat or will they be the throne?
0:22.7	Tune in now to find out on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.7	Now that I've been select and this is the Ringer NFL. I'm joined today as always by the
0:41.4	Magnanimous Stephen Rees Steven say hi to the people. Hi people. And this is our final episode
0:47.7	in our big offseason question series and we didn't really know what we wanted our last topic to be
0:52.9	and then all the running backs got mad and it made it obvious. The simmering frustrations that
0:58.4	have been held by NFL running backs over their compensation and their usage reached a boiling point
1:02.7	last week when both Giants running backs they won Barkley and Raiders running back Josh Jacobs
1:06.5	did not receive multi-year contracts before the franchise tag deadline expired. Jacob's in
1:11.8	Barkley along with many other top backs in solidarity took to Twitter. They also all met on
1:16.3	like a Zoom call to discuss the plans which is fun we're going to talk about that. The massive
1:21.1	disparity between how NFL teams use running backs and how NFL teams pay running backs is not going
1:26.9	away. So today on the Ringer NFL show what is going to happen to NFL running backs.
1:37.4	Stephen we are in my favorite era of NFL my favorite my I should say era my favorite time of the year
1:44.9	which is training camp cliff time baby it is it's time for some routes with no pads on against
1:52.1	air and that that tells us everything we need to know about players under the season I'm in on
1:56.7	junior gives I'm in on Calvin Ridley I'm in on Kyle Pitts everybody who looks good moving with no
2:02.7	pads on baby it's their time. I you're so genuine I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or
2:08.5	like it sounds I have sarcastic. I absolutely love it like I I don't love it in the sense that
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